Game crash

Hey,

I've been encountering some game crashes every now and then. They seem to be related to a particular situation, most often while reloading a game or entering another map.

This particular crash occured when leaving the ventrue tower just after the first visit to LaCroix. I've saved just before leaving the tower and the same happens every time I try to leave. Here's the log:

Quote :

* * * Vampire Crash Data Log, Generated From Exe Built On: Oct 6 2004 * * *

vampire caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module mssmp3.asi at 001b:26f05d86.

Read from location 0000286c caused an access violation.

Context:
EDI: 0x0055af08 ESI: 0x2a2b8ac0 EAX: 0x00000007
EBX: 0x201cc6e0 ECX: 0x00000000 EDX: 0x00007d00
EIP: 0x26f05d86 EBP: 0x0012e5ec SegCs: 0x0000001b
EFlags: 0x00010293 ESP: 0x0012e3d8 SegSs: 0x00000023

Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 81 6c 28 00 00 83 c4 40 c2 08 00 8b 54 24 44

-----[ SysInfo ]-----
Error occurred at 10/11/2010 22:19:02.
2 processor(s), type 586.
55% memory in use.
2048 MBytes physical memory.
1372 MBytes physical memory free.
0 MBytes paging file.
0 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
806 MBytes user address space free.

-----[ StackTrace ]-----
0x2002B980 : <unknown symbol> in C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines - CE14\bin\engine.dll

-----[ ScopeTrace ]-----
SCOPE_TRACE data, stack depth = 4
03. CAudioMixerWaveMP3::CAudioMixerWaveMP3 ()
02. RunListenServer ()
01. CEngineAPI::Run ()
00. LauncherMain ()

Module 27
C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines - CE14\bin\mssmp3.asi
Image Base: 0x26f00000 Image Size: 0x0002c000
Checksum: 0x00000000 Time Stamp: 0x3e767337
File Size: 137216 File Time: 10/6/2004 12:38:10

Wish I could help more, but not really familiar at all with the engine and it's workings regarding Bloodlines, Zer0, Malkav, or Philosopher can probably give you more help. However, that seems to be a LOT of system resources being used during your session, you might be running out of ram. Try using this utility and see if it helps any at all http://iobit.com/gamebooster.html

While it probably is not going to solve your crash, it may help in giving you smoother game play with a few more frames per sec and free up some resources, which might result in LESS crashes. I've used this utility for quite awhile now with no ill effects, and it won't install anything unknown / unwanted on your PC.

Hope that helps some!

Thanks for you input, Maximus. I'm sure I'll find that program handy in time, but it didn't solve the issue.

I might aswell try reinstalling it fresh.

[Edit]

I have tried the same game saves on a fresh CE 1.4 install. Everything works fine. I must have messed something up with the sound/scheme files.

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Fixed before I had a chance to respond, the best kind of problem!

Thanks for the post Max, I may have to check out that program.